Joi Ito and Sifry have just announced that the new Technorati beta has gone live. It is a gorgeous little redesign, that's for sure. I love it. Just balancing on the side of a little busy, but manages to pull it off without being too confusing.

But it's more than just a fancy new look. It features some great new stuff:

- New help pages aimed at new bloggers (Blogging 101, Tags)
- A "popular" tab for news, books, movies, top 100 blogs.
- More tagging! If your search matches a tag, it will give you the related tags, results from the tag, results from plain old search, and flickr results.
- More search features (like the standard advanced search options)
- More personalization right on the homepage
- Expanded capabilities of the Watchlist - you can see them on a page now, in addition to RSS.
- Watchlist a tag!

It's still a beta. Still improvements to come. But it's a large jump to this new Beta. Way to go! I am changing my bookmark as we speak...

Now, for some Technorati news:

The good news for all of us is that blogging has taken off, and we all benefit from new eyes reading what we write. The pace is staggering: we are tracking somewhere between 800,000 and 900,000 new posts made each day, over 40,000 new weblogs created every day. A year ago, we were growing by a gigabyte a day. Now, we're growing by a half a terabyte a day. So half the battle is just keeping up with all this explosive growth, and I apologise in advance for when we stumble.

Stumbles aside, it still offers a search experience as of yet unparalleled. Congrats on the new release.

Technorati Tags: technorati, beta, blogosphere, search